Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

children. They run about the house, play, talk, and
manifest their evil tempers in the very meetings
where the saints have met together to glorify God
and to worship Him in the beauty of holiness. The
place that should be holy, where a holy stillness
should reign, and where there should be perfect
order, neatness, and humility, is made to be a
perfect Babylon and a place where confusion,
disorder, and untidiness reign. This is enough to
shut out God from our assemblies and cause his
wrath to be kindled, that he will not be pleased to
go out with the armies of Israel to battle against our
enemies.
God would not give the victory in the-----
meeting. The enemies of our faith triumphed. God
was displeased. His anger is kindled that his house
should be made like Babylon....
Above everything, take care of your children
upon the Sabbath. Do not let them violate it, for
you may just as well violate it yourself as to let
your children do it. When you suffer your children
to play upon the Sabbath, God looks upon you as a
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